Edited by Jules
Cheng Wenyi unexpectedly knew Xiao Chengyan’s whereabouts!
Xiao Lan stared at his face for the slightest inkling that he was lying, but he only saw that Cheng Wenyi’s expression remained unchanged, and he wasn’t able to make out the slightest hint of a bluff.
Cheng Wenyi still smiled as he looked at Xiao Lan, but his aura changed from its previous languid reserve as he showed off his ability.
It seemed that this guy absolutely wasn’t as simple as he appeared.
Xiao Lan returned his gaze without any fear. “Provide your evidence.”
“Hehe.” Cheng Wenyi lifted the bottle filled with red perfume, admiring its gem-like lustre. “Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Lunhui’s boss, and also — Xiao Chengyan’s half-disciple.”
The information in this sentence was a little much.
Wasn’t Lunhui’s boss rumoured to be on bad terms with Wushe? In the end, he unexpectedly said he was Xiao Chengyan’s half-disciple?!
Moreover, when he mentioned the words ‘half-disciple’, he gritted his teeth slightly in anger. It could be assumed that his encounters with Xiao Chengyan hadn’t been that pleasant.
Connecting it with what Wu Ting had said previously about how Lunhui had personally clashed with Wushe several times, what sort of hardcore master and disciple relationship did these two have?
Not waiting for Xiao Lan to finish processing this information, Cheng Wenyi dropped another bombshell. “Your debt is something Cheng Wenyi asked me to arrange for you.”
Xiao Lan never thought that he would unravel the suspicion which he had carried for so long in a situation like this. After discovering the source of his debt, however, there were even more doubts that followed on its heels.
It actually was his dad!
But why the heck would Xiao Chengyan do this?
Xiao Lan gazed at Cheng Wenyi with slight astonishment and deep misgivings at the same time.
Cheng Wenyi put away the perfume bottle. He no longer leaned against the door and stood up straight. “Want to know? Come.”
He left the office and walked up the stairs.
Xiao Lan looked at his back. “To sound me out, you won’t hesitate to drag other people down?”
Cheng Wenyi didn’t turn back as his unconcerned voice rang out. “To obtain the answer I want, what does it matter if all of you die?”
Truly a theory filled with tyranny.
Soon, Cheng Wenyi’s figure disappeared from Xiao Lan’s line of sight up the stairs.
Luo walked up behind Xiao Lan. “Sir.”
Xiao Lan shook his head. “I’m fine.”
“His motives are unclear. Do you want to keep this appointment?” Luo’s tone was unhurried, but contained some slight concern over Xiao Lan’s state. “If you really can’t take it, I can also think of a way to take you out of this game.”
Xiao Lan looked at the stairs to the second floor. With one key item missing, clearing the game would definitely become a lot more difficult. If they failed to seal Yin and had to face that invisible and incorporeal attack, the outcome of the battle would truly be hard to predict; even a narrow escape wasn’t certain.
Perhaps he could ask Luo to do it like back in Six Realms Hot Springs, and utilise his strength to tear apart the world barrier.
However, this would consume a tremendous amount of Luo’s energy. Moreover, back then, it had just happened to be during a phase when there were several loopholes in the game, and the barriers between the worlds were relatively weak. Now that the Advent World had fixed the loopholes, if they wanted to do it again, it definitely wouldn’t just be a little harder; they might even attract contract players.
Although Xiao Lan was growing extremely quickly and Luo was becoming increasingly stronger as he recovered, Xiao Lan knew very well that they currently weren’t at a level where they could contend against contract players. That was too risky.
Besides, he still had many things he wanted to know when it came to Xiao Chengyan as well as his debts, and the answers now all had something to do with Cheng Wenyi.
It had to be said that Cheng Wenyi had chosen the perfect occasion.
Since he had an important item for clearing the game and was also involved in matters which Xiao Lan was most concerned about, it seemed Xiao Lan had to make this battle appointment.
“Let’s go see what he wants to do. If it’s just to kill me, there’s no need for him to personally make the trip here, much less toss out so many lures to draw me in.” Xiao Lan made his decision.
“Please be careful, sir.” Luo’s tone was faint. He respected Xiao Lan’s choice and didn’t say anything unnecessary, but killing intent stirred in the depths of his eyes.
“I will.” Xiao Lan smiled at Luo.
Luo quickly restrained the danger in his expression and faced Xiao Lan with his perpetual gentle and elegant smile.
Walking out of the office, Xiao Lan encountered Hua Bei and Hu Zhai, who had realised something was wrong and rushed over. He hinted at the two of them to let it be, and didn’t plan on gathering everyone together to find Cheng Wenyi.
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Arriving on the second floor.
Shirley seemed to know that danger was around the corner, and merely sat at the top of the stairs. Seeing Xiao Lan come up the stairs, it even gave him a gentle “meow~” and was completely unlike its owner.
Mu Yang was leaning next to the door and playing his game. Seeing Xiao Lan and Luo arrive, he waved at them and said quietly, “I wasn’t the one who found the perfume; it was boss.”
Xiao Lan nodded at him. Mu Yang had always been serious about clearing the game and extremely diligent in looking for clues; it didn’t look like he was deliberately approaching him.
Snatching the key item seemed more like a last-minute decision on Cheng Wenyi’s part; his goal was just to force Xiao Lan to fight him.
Cheng Wenyi stood leisurely in the meeting room where the players had convened for a meeting before.
He had taken off the overcoat and suit he was wearing, and was now only wearing a white shirt. The smooth lines of his muscles were visible through his shirt; it was clear that this person absolutely wasn’t weak in close combat.
Cheng Wenyi undid the buttons at his wrists and rolled up his sleeves to conveniently reveal well-shaped but buff arms.
Seeing Xiao Lan walk into the conference room, a silver gun appeared in Cheng Wenyi’s hand out of nowhere. He raised his hand and fired a shot in Xiao Lan’s direction with a ‘bang—’.
Xiao Lan didn’t stop moving at all; he didn’t even tilt his head.
Because he had clearly determined that the shot was aimed to his side.
The purpose of this shot wasn’t to attack, but to intimidate.
A sharp gust of wind brushed past Xiao Lan. It didn’t hurt him at all, and directly slammed into the meeting room’s glass door, which shattered; the bullet’s power wasn’t diminished as it continued towards the opposite wall.
Boom —
The wall of the boss’s office now had a huge hole in it.
After breaking through the wall, the bullet still didn’t slow down as it shot violently at the other wall in its path.
There was another loud sound which almost overlapped with the previous noise.
After breaking through the other wall of the boss’s office, the bullet finally disappeared in the invisible barrier outside the studio. Unhindered by the wall, the moonlight outside the window poured into the building like a stream of water.
This gun’s might was evident.
Seeing Xiao Lan’s reaction, Cheng Wenyi revealed a satisfied smile. “Very good.”
The boss who was trying to dig his meat patty out of the ground was now thoroughly too afraid to move.
Fuck, what goddamn monsters are the players in this round?!
Do you know that it is everyone’s duty to take care of the boss?!
After displaying the gun’s might, Cheng Wenyi conversely put it away.
“I won’t use any items. I’ll just fight you with my own strength,” Cheng Wenyi said, “but you can use your items if you like; I don’t mind.”
In passing, he tossed the perfume bottle he was using as a stake to Mu Yang at the side, not worrying at all that Xiao Lan would snatch it and just leave.
Xiao Lan shook his head. “No need. I also won’t use an item.”
Cheng Wenyi’s condition looked very favourable to him, but it was actually an ingenious psychological trap.
Don’t forget, after this fight, there was still another round of negotiations and exchange of information. If he agreed to the other party’s condition, it meant that Xiao Lan mentally thought he was inferior to the other. This was a huge taboo for negotiations.
The more he accepted Cheng Wenyi’s concessions now, the less advantageous it would be for Xiao Lan in later negotiations.
What Xiao Lan needed was victory, a victory on equal terms with the other party. Only in this way would he have enough capital to have a conversation with Cheng Wenyi.
Moreover, Xiao Lan’s physical constitution was pretty good itself, and he was skilled in close combat. Even if Cheng Wenyi was an advanced player, Xiao Lan couldn’t be too far while the former was being suppressed by the game’s setting. The odds of success may not be fifty-fifty, but it definitely wasn’t less than thirty percent either.
Cheng Wenyi’s lips quirked. “Sure enough, Xiao Chengyan’s son isn’t bad.
“But I still hope you can be a little more serious. If your loss is too ugly, I really will kill you.
“Wasting my time is a capital offense.”
After saying that, Cheng Wenyi sensed a flare of cutting killing intent aimed at him from a certain direction. He shifted his gaze and saw that it was Fei Luo, who followed next to Xiao Lan. Even with his influence, he couldn’t find anything on this guy’s background at all; he truly was extremely mysterious.
It seemed that this guy’s concern for Xiao Lan was far higher than he had expected ah.
Cheng Wenyi thus turned his attention back to Xiao Lan and adjusted his breathing. “Let’s begin ba.”
Xiao Lan stared at Cheng Wenyi, not acting blindly or rashly.
Seeing this, Cheng Wenyi simply rushed towards Xiao Lan at lightning speed. His figure left a blurry shadow in the air, and a punch was aimed right at Xiao Lan’s face.
Xiao Lan quickly sidestepped him. This attack brushed past his clothes, and he could sense the wind kicked up by the attack.
Cheng Wenyi was unexpectedly even quicker than he had anticipated!
But he didn’t get flustered at all. Seizing the instant they crossed paths, Xiao Lan punched at a vital part.
Cheng Wenyi’s battle awareness wasn’t bad at all, and he twisted away with nimble steps to avoid Xiao Lan’s attack. At the same time, he had already made his second move.
The distance between the both of them right now was extremely short. It was already a little too late to avoid it.
Xiao Lan stretched out an arm to block Cheng Wenyi’s fierce strike and seized this opportunity to widen the distance between them.
Xiao Lan gently flexed his arm. It was a little numb. The force of Cheng Wenyi’s single punch was incredibly strong. If he was a player with even a slightly weaker constitution, his bones might have broken from this punch.
“Not bad.” As Cheng Wenyi spoke, he came at Xiao Lan again.
The two then went through a dozen moves back and forth. The speed of their attack and defense was extremely quick. The intense battle made Mu Yang, who was playing a game at the door, feel like the gameboy in his hands wasn’t fun at all.
Mu Yang couldn’t help saying, “This… this is an intermediate player?”
He and Xiao Lan were both intermediate players; he couldn’t help visualising what it would be like if he and Xiao Lan ever fought. As a result… He might not even have time to release his skill.
All of a sudden, Mu Yang felt that he truly had too little practical experience. No wonder his family’s boss always regarded him with disdain.
In the battle.
Under the rapid attacks, Xiao Lan gradually adapted to Cheng Wenyi’s attack speed.
Finally, during a gap in their exchange, Xiao Lan seized a chance again to punch Cheng Wenyi in the waist.
But strangely, Cheng Wenyi continued attacking like it was nothing after he was hit. He didn’t retreat like a normal person would after being attacked or subconsciously adopt a defensive stance. It was like nothing happened at all just now.
Was this because his physical strength was already at a degree where he didn’t have to pay attention to Xiao Lan’s attack, or did his skill render Xiao Lan’s attack ineffective?
Cheng Wenyi’s attack fell once again. Xiao Lan leaned away to dodge his attack.
This punch ruthlessly slammed into the meeting table and shattered it completely.
Unlike his flashy appearance, Cheng Wenyi’s attacks were extremely wild and unrestrained. All of his moves were vicious and nimble. They were clearly skills he had honed through intense battle.
Xiao Lan kicked up the table fragments that had fallen off, and they flew at Cheng Wenyi’s head. Seizing the instant his opponent’s gaze strayed away for one moment, Xiao Lan ruthlessly stomped on his leg.
Like earlier, Cheng Wenyi still didn’t react to the attack.
This time, Xiao Lan clearly saw his attack land on Cheng Wenyi, and also felt that the other’s physical strength wasn’t exaggerated to an unimaginable degree. Then, his skill should be the ability to dispel injuries.
Mu Yang very quietly said, “It’s best not to use what is known against boss, because he —”
Cheng Wenyi: “Xiao Yang.”
“Oh.” Mu Yang lowered his head, forced to continue to absorb himself in the gameboy.
Cheng Wenyi told Xiao Lan, “Let me give you a tip ba: Things that I’ve understood the theory behind are ineffective against me.”
Mu Yang lifted his head from his game and said expressionlessly, “Turns out that you wanted to show off yourself, boss.”
Cheng Wenyi: “…”
He decided to ignore this traitorous employee for now; he would deal with him later.
Xiao Lan suddenly felt that it was a little tricky. This guy’s skill was rather hard to deal with ah…
Currently, common physical attacks were ineffective against Cheng Wenyi, and Xiao Lan had no idea how broad the range was for ‘the understood theory behind things’.
But Cheng Wenyi’s melee strength was also excellent. In this sense, Xiao Lan was thus unable to attack Cheng Wenyi, but Cheng Wenyi could harm Xiao Lan.
How troublesome.
Cheng Wenyi truly was very strong; if he couldn’t rely on his own strength, he would’ve long been buried in some grave, with the way he behaved.
You needed the capital to be arrogant.
After another round of crossed swords.
Xiao Lan wiped off the blood at the corner of his mouth. He had still suffered several attacks. Although he had done his best to avoid being injured in his vitals and the injuries all over him weren’t severe, this definitely wasn’t the way to handle how things were going.
What was even more troublesome was that as time slowly passed, they were getting closer and closer to 04:44. Cheng Wenyi didn’t appear to care, but Xiao Lan didn’t want to continue dragging on with this at all.
The entire meeting room was very quickly about to be torn into nothing from their heated battle.
Table and chair fragments covered the floor, and there were also several large holes in the walls. The wires originally buried in the walls were exposed, and they already looked a little damaged and very dangerous.
Evading Cheng Wenyi’s attack once more, Xiao Lan’s leg swept out to the side.
Seizing the instant Cheng Wenyi avoided it, Xiao Lan reached into the wall and tore out a large chunk of the wires, which he threw full into Cheng Wenyi’s face.
Blue electric arcs instantly dispersed all over Cheng Wenyi’s body, the heart-stopping crackles ringing out and carrying a sense of danger.
Cheng Wenyi’s movements paused.
After that, right in front of Xiao Lan’s eyes, he reached out and directly grabbed with his bare hand the damaged wires whose insides were exposed, and took them off.
Casually tossing the wires aside, Cheng Wenyi gazed at Xiao Lan, smiling lightly. “Electricity is useless.”
With that came Cheng Wenyi’s next round of attacks.
As Xiao Lan dealt with Cheng Wenyi’s attacks, he rapidly considered ways to deal with him.
What could he do to hurt Cheng Wenyi?
During the exchange, Xiao Lan had already sensed that Cheng Wenyi had abundant combat experience, even more than Xiao Lan.
To train this skill, he had definitely figured out several attack methods. Physical attacks, electricity, poison… These common attack methods definitely wouldn’t be overlooked.
What was there that he had yet to understand?
Xiao Lan reached out to block Cheng Wenyi’s fist, and suddenly had an idea as he thought of a sentence — “No matter what, humans are stupid creatures who can never understand one another”.
What Cheng Wenyi was unable to understand was naturally the things from other people’s minds.
For example — a skill that only existed in the imagination!
Like how there were a thousand hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes, there were differences in what everyone imagined. Even if you described it to someone else, the way two people understood it couldn’t possibly be exactly the same.
Bright fighting spirit filled Xiao Lan’s eyes as he activated his skill:
【Name: Poverty is unable to restrict my imagination】
【Ability: True harm】
【Remaining time: 00:04:59】
This time, Xiao Lan took the initiative to attack, striking Cheng Wenyi with lightning speed and punching him ferociously in the face.
Cheng Wenyi lifted his arm to thwart him and protect his handsome face, but felt a sharp pain in his arm. He looked at Xiao Lan in slight astonishment, and was met with the fighting spirit which burned in Xiao Lan’s eyes.
Xiao Lan wiped off the sweat on his forehead, a smile on his lips. “Now, the fight officially begins.”
Finally, there was a serious look in Cheng Wenyi’s eyes. “Let’s wait and see.”
The author has something to say:
PS: No matter what, humans are stupid creatures who can never understand one another — by Pain (T/n: From Naruto. I’m screaming.)
Baobao Notes
I really like how everyone’s skill is actually quite OP. xiao lan’s skill is literally anything he can imagine, Taidi’s skill is ‘whatever I say will come true’, Wang Ke’s is bloodrage, Wenyi’s is ‘what I know cannot hurt me’. If in other novels, any of these skills would be either protag or major villain level.
Waah this is so interesting, can’t wait to see how the fight ended.
Thank you for the chapter ❤️
“Your debt is something Cheng Wenyi asked me to arrange for you.”
Shouldn’t it have been something the father asked?
Thank you for the chapter!!! ❤️❤️
Lmao the author literally quoted Pain X”D also yasss, everyone is basically OP at this point, not to mention Xiao Lan’ papa who can control manipulation if my memory is correct. Can’t imagine how the fight of this OP chara will unfold in the future XD
Thank you for your great translationnn ~ we luv you oh~
THE AUTHOR JUST QUOTED NARUTO AHHHHHHhhhhHhh
thanks for the chapter~
Thank you so much for translating! <3
Naruto, I’m screaming lmao
»“Your debt is something Cheng Wenyi asked me to arrange for you.”« Should be Xiao Chengyan.
» “I will.” Xiao Lan smiled at Xiao Lan.« XL smiled at Luo.
Ohoho, yeah let the fight begin >3
Thx for the ch ٩(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )و
thanks for the chapter <3
The quotes are immaculate, lol, TYSM for the upload
I really dislike Cheng Wenyi and would enjoy watching him die a humiliating death. Unfortunately his character design strongly implies he won’t.
+1 he is annoying as hell
+1 he needs to DIE!!
Thanks for the chapter! ^^)❤
Yes, that’s why, I like this novel, everyone is equal in terms of being OP ✧(>o<)ﾉ✧
Thank you for the chapter~
LOVE THAT QUOTE FROM PAIN
MC took too long to react. He could have used his skill once he found out Cheng Wenyi wasn’t able to be defeated by normal means. He didn’t state skills wasn’t allowed.
💜💜💜
Cheng Wenyi dropped another bombshell. “Your debt is something Cheng Wenyi asked me to arrange for you.”
I think it should be Xiao Chengyan..